title: Foreign-born and US-born black women: differences in health behaviors and birth outcomes.
abstract: We studied health behaviors and birth outcome among 201 foreign-born and 616 US-born Black women receiving prenatal care at Boston City Hospital. Foreign-born women had better pre-pregnancy nutritional status and prenatal health behaviors, and their infants had greater intrauterine growth. Black women are not a homogeneous group; culture and ethnicity, in addition to other variables, must be considered in the study of their birth outcomes.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Boston University, MA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cabral
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Fried
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Levenson
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Amaro
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zuckerman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D001724:Birth Weight; D001900:Boston; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008393:Marriage; D008423:Maternal Age; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000208:ethnology*; D011295:Prenatal Care